Published November, 2014
By Mohinder Bansal and Naveen Kaushal
Publisher: Springer (Springer, India, Private Ltd)
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This book aims to focus on these areas to provide readers a comprehensive outlook about the major redox sensitive pathways and networks involved in various disease conditions. Selenium, being the research focus and interest of the authors for years, the role of selenium as an antioxidant as part of selenoproteins has been included in the book.

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Published November, 2014
By Mogens L. Glass and Stephen C. Wood
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
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2 2 The conquest for the terrestrial environment took place in the late Devonian period (355-359 million years ago), and recent discoveries portray the gradual transitional evolution of land vertebrates.

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Published November, 2014
By Ulrich Lüttge
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
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Since the publication of the first edition of this book ten years ago, international research into the physiological ecology of plants in the tropics has increased enormously in quantity and quality.

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Published November, 2014
By Ian M. Dickerson and Deborah L. Hay
Publisher: Springer
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The year 1961 was a banner year for parathyroid research, in which the peptides parathyroid hormone and calcitonin were purified, and in which it was suggested that calcitonin could lower blood calcium (Copp and Cameron 1961).

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Published November, 2014
By Rexford S. Ahima
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
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The obesity epidemic has generated immense interest in recent years due to the wide-ranging and significant adverse health and economic consequences that surround the problem. Comprehensive and timely, Metabolic Basis of Obesity is an essential reference for understanding the burgeoning problem of obesity.

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Published November, 2014
By Scott L. Friedman, Ryozo Nagai and Masato Kasuga
Publisher: Springer (Springer Verlag, Japan)
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Kruppel-like factors (KLFs) are attracting great attention across a wide spectrum of biological sciences and medicine because of their remarkable biological potency and the diversity of roles they play in the physiological and pathological changes of cells and tissues.

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Published October, 2014
By Hugo Merchant and Victor de Lafuente
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
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Thus, Neurobiology of Interval Timing will integrate for the first time the current knowledge of both animal behavior and human cognition of the passage of time in different behavioral context, including the perception and production of time intervals, as well as rhythmic activities, using different experimental and theoretical frameworks.

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Published October, 2014
By Kristen J. Nadeau and Philip Scott Zeitler
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Contemporary Endocrinology
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Gerald Reaven identified a constellation of clinical findings, known variously as the metabolic syndrome, syndrome X, insulin resistance s- drome or insulin resistance-related disorders, that are associated with an increased risk of heart disease and diabetes.

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Published October, 2014
By Ursula F. Habenicht and Robert John Aitken
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology
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The inadequacy of current contraceptive technologies is indicated by recent data s- gesting that the contraceptive needs of over 120 million couples go unmet every year.

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Published October, 2014
By Ashok K. Srivastava and Madhu B. Anand-Srivastava
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Advances in Biochemistry in Health and Disease
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This, Volume 3 in the Springer series Advances in Biochemistry in Health and Disease, examines the contributions of signaling systems in modulating normal cardiovascular functions and how disruption of this signaling leads to cardiovascular disorders.

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